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Белоснежный мраморный карьер в Бугульдейке.

Один из самых масштабных в России и в мире Мраморный карьер в поселке Бугульдейка располагается в Ольхонском районе Иркутской области у берегов озера Байкал и является частью природоохранной зоны. Специалисты утверждают, что на территории Бугульдейского месторождения хранится более 10 млн. кубических метров мрамора, возраст которого составляет более двух миллиардов лет. Так что месторождение значительно старше самого озера Байкал. Из-за природоохранного статуса местности, добыча горной породы здесь приостановлена.

Карьер не эксплуатируется с прошлого тысячелетия, однако несмотря на это стал центром притяжения туристов, которые с удовольствием приезжают посмотреть на огромные глыбы мрамора — рядом с ними человек кажется крошечным. В теплое время года на огромных глыбах позируют любители оригинальных фото, часто приезжают скалолазы. За 2022-23 годы карьер превратился в полноценный туробъект. В целях безопасности его огородили, а на мраморных блоках на поверхности земли установили "кривые зеркала", напоминающие чем-то робота Т-1000 из Терминатора - 2. Попасть на него можно в любое время бесплатно.

Snow-white marble quarry in Buguldeika.

One of the largest in Russia and in the world, the marble quarry in the village of Buguldeika is located in the Olkhonsky district of the Irkutsk region on the shores of Lake Baikal and is part of a nature conservation area. Experts say that the territory of the Buguldeika deposit contains more than 10 million cubic meters of marble, which is more than two billion years old. So the deposit is much older than Lake Baikal itself. Due to the nature conservation status of the area, mining here has been suspended.

The quarry has not been in operation since the last millennium, but despite this, it has become a center of attraction for tourists who are happy to come to see the huge blocks of marble - next to them, a person seems tiny. In the warm season, lovers of original photos pose on the huge blocks, and rock climbers often come. In 2022-23, the quarry turned into a full-fledged tourist site. For security purposes, it was fenced off, and "crooked mirrors" were installed on marble blocks on the ground surface, somewhat reminiscent of the T-1000 robot from Terminator 2. You can get there at any time for free.

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Milan Cathedral

There is a marble quarry in the Italian Alps that has been working since 1387, but in 639 years, it has had only one customer.

The quarry is at Candoglia, at the mouth of the Ossola valley.

On 24 October 1387, Gian Galeazzo Visconti decided that the cathedral going up in his city should be built of marble rather than brick, and handed the quarry over to the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, the body established to build it.

He also granted the stone free passage down the waterways to Milan.

The blocks went by raft from the Toce river into Lake Maggiore, down the Ticino, along the Naviglio Grande, then through a system of locks into a small lake in the centre of the city, a few hundred metres from the site.

The bargemen carried the letters AUF, for "ad usum fabricae," for the use of the works, which cleared the cargo through customs without charge.

People in Lombardy still say "a ufo" for something got for nothing, and the phrase is traditionally traced back to those barges.

Mark Twain came in 1867 and noticed something most visitors walk past:

"We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years."

It has never stopped: around a thousand tonnes of Candoglia marble still comes out of the mountain every year, and all of it goes to the same building.

In a workshop in the Certosa district, sculptors cut replacements for whatever the weather has eaten away, from the same stone, for the same institution, founded in 1387.

The cathedral was declared finished in 1965 but the quarry never stopped, because a cathedral like this is not something you complete. It is inherited, kept, and handed on.

As John Ruskin wrote in The Seven Lamps of Architecture:

"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone.

Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them:

‘See! This our fathers did for us.’"

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